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The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Everything
Wounds
Real
Flying
Clearly
Challenge
Emotional
Challenges
Traumas
Around
Trauma
Remember
Wrapped

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